Flying Eyes and Hidden Controllers: A Qualitative Study of People’s Privacy Perceptions of Civilian Drones in The US
Flying Eyes and Hidden Controllers: A Qualitative Study of People’s Privacy Perceptions of Civilian Drones in The US
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飞眼与隐藏控制器：美国民众对民用无人机隐私认知的定性研究
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2016
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Yun Huang
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Yang Wang;Huichuan Xia;Yaxing Yao;Yun Huang
摘要无人机是远程控制或自主操作的无人驾驶飞机。虽然现存的文献表明，无人机原则上可以侵犯人们的隐私，但人们对无人机的实际看法却知之甚少。通过在美国进行的一系列深入访谈，我们提供了一个新颖而丰富的关于人们对民用无人机在一般和特定使用场景下的隐私感知的描述。我们的线人提出了反对政府、组织和个人使用无人机的物理和信息隐私问题。举报人关于接受无人机使用的推理部分是基于无人机是在公共空间还是私人空间运行。然而，我们的受访者对公共空间和私人空间的定义有很大的不同。虽然我们的线人的隐私问题，如监视，数据收集和共享已经提出了其他跟踪技术，如摄像手机和闭路电视（CCTV），我们的采访突出了无人机的两个突出问题：（1）强大但不显眼的数据收集，（2）隐藏和无法访问的无人机控制器。无人机的这两个方面使得人们现有的一些隐私实践无效（例如，通知记录并要求控制员停止或删除记录）。一些线人要求通知他们附近的无人机，并期望无人机控制员在记录前要求他们明确的许可。我们讨论了对未来增强隐私的无人机设计的影响。
Abstract Drones are unmanned aircraft controlled remotely or operated autonomously. While the extant literature suggests that drones can in principle invade people’s privacy, little is known about how people actually think about drones. Drawing from a series of in-depth interviews conducted in the United States, we provide a novel and rich account of people’s privacy perceptions of drones for civilian uses both in general and under specific usage scenarios. Our informants raised both physical and information privacy issues against government, organization and individual use of drones. Informants’ reasoning about the acceptance of drone use was in part based on whether the drone is operating in a public or private space. However, our informants differed significantly in their definitions of public and private spaces. While our informants’ privacy concerns such as surveillance, data collection and sharing have been raised for other tracking technologies such as camera phones and closed-circuit television (CCTV), our interviews highlight two heightened issues of drones: (1) powerful yet inconspicuous data collection, (2) hidden and inaccessible drone controllers. These two aspects of drones render some of people’s existing privacy practices futile (e.g., notice recording and ask controllers to stop or delete the recording). Some informants demanded notifications of drones near them and expected drone controllers asking for their explicit permissions before recording. We discuss implications for future privacy-enhancing drone designs.